CEAL Election Notice

Dear CEAL members,

With this year’s CEAL meeting fast approaching, we will soon be sending out ballots to fill two positions on the Executive Board. In order to ensure that you will be able to participate in the voting, you must be a current member, i.e. you must have already paid membership dues to both the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and the Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL). If you are not certain of your membership status, you can easily check by going to the “Join CEAL” website:

<http://www.eastasianlib.org/cmb/joinceal.htm#MemberStatus>

Follow the instructions for confirming your current membership. If you find that you are not current, there is still time to renew your membership in time for this year’s election, but you will have to update your membership by next Friday (February 8th), at 2:00pm PST.

This year’s meeting in San Diego promises to be of particular interest. I hope to see you all there.

Kenneth Klein

CEAL Secretary

CCM Annual Programs (2013)

Dear Colleagues,

The Committee on Chinese Materials would like to announce CCM Annual Programs (2013), please visit this page for more information: http://www.eastasianlib.org/ccm/Program2013.shtml.  We look forward to seeing you all in San Diego!


Vickie Doll
Tang Li
Ming-sun Poon
Zhijia Shen
Ping Situ
Susan Xue (Chair)
Haihui Zhang

CEAL Plenary Program Details

Plenary Program (PDF)

CEAL Colleagues,

I am pleased to announce the 2013 CEAL Plenary Program on March 20 at its annual meeting in San Diego. Please click the link above for a detailed program, outlining the theme, speakers and venues.

Peter Zhou, PhD
President, Council on East Asian Libraries (CEAL) Assistant University Librarian
Director, C.V. Starr East Asian Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Tel: (510) 643-6579
FAX: (510) 642-3817
pzhou@library.berkeley.edu

Call for Applications - 2013 CALA Jing Liao Award for the Best Research in All Media

Dear CEAL members,

The 2013 CALA "Jing Liao Award for the Best Research in All Media” is now accepting applications through April 1, 2013 for research published in 2012. 

The pursuit of excellence in research and service defined the career of Jing Liao (1954-2011), the late CALA member and a devoted and accomplished librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The CALA Jing Liao Best Research Award has been established to honor the memory of Jing Liao by awarding CALA members who achieve excellence in research in any media.

CALA members in good standing for at least three consecutive years are eligible for the competition that awards $500 annually. The deadline for this year's submission is April 1, 2013. The applications/submissions may be sent to the Chair or any of the Committee members listed below. The winner will be announced prior to the ALA annual conference in Chicago. The award will be presented and a citation read at the CALA Awards Banquet in June 2013.

Award Guidelines for 2013

1.     One award in the amount of $500 will be granted in 2013;
2.     Applicants must be CALA members in good standing for at least three consecutive years, including the year of application;
3.     Applicants must demonstrate excellence in scholarly research by publishing works in any media (e.g. print, multi-media, or e-Journals, including Open Access Journals);
4.     Applicants may submit one single work published in 2012 for consideration;
5.     Applicants must not be past recipients of the award.  

Selection Criteria

1.     Originality of the research;
2.     Quality and thoroughness of the research and its presentation;
3.     Contribution to the subject field;
4.     Significance to the library profession and to the library community.

For details, please check CALA website at http://cala-web.org/node/1297

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Karen Wei (kwei@illinois.edu), Chair, or any of the committee members.



Committee for the Jing Liao Award for the Best Research in All Media, 2012-2013

Karen Wei (kwei@illinois.edu), Chair
Heather Huibin Cai (heather.cai@mcgill.ca)
Vickie Fu Doll (vdoll@ku.edu)
Li Fu (lifuwc@gmail.com)
Wenling Liu (wliu@indiana.edu)

RDA in NACO Series Training (Jan. 22, 2013)

Long-awaited "RDA in NACO Series Training" (Jan. 22, 2013) now released to the general public at URL:

http://www.loc.gov/catworkshop/courses/rda_naco_series/course%20table.html

must be of utility to some CEAL members.

"Sleepless San Diego" by CEAL Membership Committee

Dear all,

The Membership Committee is proud to present a wonderful late evening program of networking and information sharing, "Sleepless San Diego,"   at this year's CEAL conference.

•    Do you want to meet new friends, or catch up with old ones?
•    Do you want to exchange ideas with your colleagues?
•    If you are new to the field, whether still in  library school or a recent graduate, do you want to get some sound job advice from seasoned veteran librarians?
•    If you are in the CEAL Mentoring Program, do you want to meet your mentor/mentee (finally) in person? 

If so, please come to our "Sleepless San Diego" on Wednesday March 20th, at Connaugh, from 9:30pm to 11pm. After a full day of talks and presentations, this late evening program would be a perfect opportunity for all of  us  to unwind, relax, and at the same time, pick up new ideas and build up our professional network. 

Yunshan Ye
On behalf of CEAL Membership Committee

Japanese Romanization Table Revision Approved

Dear all,

Please read the LC announcement below approving the ALA-LC Japanese Romanization Table Revision. The major difference between this approved version and the September proposal you read is that Table C, Long Vowels and Diphthongs, was not included.

Japanese Romanization Table Revision Approved

The ALA-LC Romanization tables are developed jointly by the Library of Congress (LC) and the American Library Association (ALA). Romanization schemes enable the cataloging of foreign language materials. Romanized cataloging in turn supports circulation, acquisitions, serials check-in, shelf listing, shelving, and reference, particularly in library catalogs that are unable to display non-roman alphabet information.
The ALCTS Committee on Cataloging: Asian and African Materials (CC:AAM) recently received and reviewed a proposal to revise the Japanese romanization table. The table has subsequently been approved.

The revised Japanese romanization table is now available for downloading from the ALA-LC Romanization Tables webpage http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html .

Please direct any questions about romanization tables to Bruce Johnson, Policy and Standards Division (bjoh@loc.gov).

The CEAL Committee on Technical Process and Committee on Japanese Materials wish to thank the CTP/CJM Joint Task Force on the LC Proposal for Japanese Romanization for their great leadership and intellectual efforts in working closely with CEAL community and LC to provide significant contribution to this revision.

The Task Force members are:

• Keiko Suzuki, Yale University, Chair
• Rob Britt, University of Washington 
• Yoko Kudo, University of California Riverside 
• Mieko Mazza, Yale University (now at Stanford University) 
• Hikaru Nakano, University of Florida

Thanks also to CEAL members who have contributed to the revision by providing feedback.

As the work of the CTP/CJM Joint Task Force on the LC Proposal for Japanese Romanization is now complete, we are pleased to announce that it is formally discharged. For more details about the work of the TF, please check its web page at: http://www.eastasianlib.org/ctp/sub_Japaneseromanization.htm

Meanwhile, the revision of the Japanese Romanization Table will continue. CTP and CJM are working on the formation of a new working group. We will send out the announcement soon. If you are interested in joining the working group, please contact me (sdeng@ucsd.edu) or Setsuko (enoguchi@live.com). 

Best,

Shi Deng
Chair, CEAL Technical Processing Committee

Setsuko Noguchi
Chair, CEAL Japanese Materials Committee